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Global News Headlines 09/07
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Thursday, September 7, 2000
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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ATMOSPHERE
1) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Global warming temperatures
could be worse than thought: UN panel BYLINE: Odile Meuvret
DATELINE: LYON, France, Sept 7 BODY: UN experts on climate
change fear that air temperatures which have sparked the
global warming crisis may increase by up to five degrees
Celsius (10.5
2) Long-dead boat captains confirm global warming By Maggie
Fox, Health and Science Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept 7
(Reuters) - River captains long dead, 15th-century Japanese
priests and records kept by Swiss believers who liked to
carry a statue of the Madonna across a frozen lake confirm
that global warming is a real trend, scientists said on
ENERGY
3) The Guardian (London) September 7, 2000 SECTION: Guardian
Foreign Pages, Pg. 17 HEADLINE: Europe urges Opec to bring
oil prices down BYLINE: Ian Black in Brussels BODY: Oil
exporters came under public pressure from the European
Union to boost production yesterday when France's fuel
blockade showed signs of spreading to other countries hit
4) The Evening Standard (London) September 7, 2000 HEADLINE:
FRANCE SET TO RUN OUT OF FUEL AS UNIONS INCREASE BLOCKADES
BODY: THREE-QUARTERS of France will run out of petrol and
diesel by the weekend unless militant unions release their
stranglehold on fuel supplies, the country was warned
today, writes Ian Sparks. The blockades of oil refineries,
5) Germany's Greens say end of ``oil age'' in sight BERLIN,
Sept 6 (Reuters) - Germany's Greens party said on Wednesday
that soaring oil prices meant petroleum could soon be a
thing of the past, and the environmentalists urged more
support for renewable energy and energy efficiency
programmes. "The end of the age of oil is in sight," Greens
FORESTS
6) Battle looming over Tasmanian woodchip plan By Don Woolford
HOBART, Sept 7 AAP - The Tasmanian government today set the
scene for a new battle between developers and
environmentalists when it announced plans for a $100
million timber processing complex in the scenic Huon Valley.
Deputy Premier and Forestry Minister Paul Lennon said the
7) Deutsche Presse-Agentur September 7, 2000, HEADLINE:
Deforestation threatens Cambodia's food security, FAO chief
says DATELINE: Phnom Penh BODY: Rampant deforestation is
already harming Cambodia's farms and fisheries and is a
major threat to fighting hunger in the impoverished
country, the head of the U.N. Food and Agriculture
(Greenpeace)
8) The Province Thursday, September 7, 2000 EDITION Final C
News PAGE A26 Eco-activists take protests to cities John
Bermingham Eco-protesters have moved from the forest to the
city to block logging in old-growth rainforests. Greenpeace
organizer Jo Dufay said protests like Tuesday's occupation
of part of an Interfor sawmill in New Westminster will
(Greenpeace)
9) Associated Press. September 6, 2000, LENGTH: 156 words
HEADLINE: Greenpeace protest mill rests in arrests, ship
blockade DATELINE: NEW WESTMINSTER, British Columbia BODY:
Four Greenpeace protesters have been arrested in a protest
at a mill that also resulted in a blockade of the
environmental group's by angry union workers. Two men and
10) BUSINESSWORLD (PHILIPPINES) September 7, 2000 HEADLINE:
Senate probes P131-million log tax scam BODY: The Senate
blue ribbon committee suspects a cover-up by state auditors,
budget, environment and local government officials of a
P131-million log tax scam in Quirino province. Committee
chairman Aquilino Q. Pimentel, Jr. cited the officials'
11) Associated Press. September 7, 2000, HEADLINE: Firefighters
heading home, loggers heading back into the forests
DATELINE: HELENA, Mont. BODY: For the first time in weeks,
the loggers are back. Thanks to cool, damp weather, the
wildfires that have plagued Montana all season have been
tamed enough that loggers on Thursday were being allowed
GENETIC ENGINEERING
12) The Canberra Times September 7, 2000, SECTION: A;12
HEADLINE: Green test for GM crops BYLINE: HEATHER CATCHPOLE
BODY: GENETICALLY modified cotton, clover and canola crops
will undergo a trial run in Australia in a new research
project aimed at determining the environmental impact of
growing these crops. The $3 million, three-year project by
13) BUSINESS LINE September 7, 2000 HEADLINE: India: China
tightens controls on GM crops BODY: Recently in Beijing:
CHINA, which has been the first Asian country to
commercialise genetically modified plants, has now become
more stringent and critical in evaluating the environmental
and bio- safety aspects of transgenics. The Chinese
(Greenpeace)
14) Africa News September 7, 2000 LENGTH: 1194 words HEADLINE:
Kenya; Shut Up And Eat Your GM Soup, Africans Are Told
BYLINE: Sam Wainaina, The East African (Nairobi) BODY:
Nairobi - The Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Kari,
teaming up with the international agribusiness giant
Monsanto, achieved a coup of sorts when they went public
15) BANGKOK POST September 7, 2000 HEADLINE: GENETIC
MODIFICATION: Long march against GM crops launched: Farmers
up in arms over rice research BODY: Farmers organisations
nationwide launched a "long march" last night in a historic
campaign against biotechnological research on rice strains.
Fearing genetically -modified rice would cause genetic
16) European deputies slam British embryo cloning call
STRASBOURG, France, Sept 7 (Reuters) - The European
Parliament on Thursday condemned a call by Britain's chief
medical officer to allow British scientists to clone human
embryos for use in medical research. A non-binding
resolution, narrowly approved in a 237-230 vote by the
17) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) September 07, 2000, SECTION:
Pg. 14 HEADLINE: Princess calls for open mind on GM British
Association BYLINE: Reports by Roger Highfield, David
Derbyshire and Robert Uhlig BODY: THE House of Windsor was
still divided over scientific issues yesterday after the
Princess Royal called for an open mind on genetically
MILITARY
18) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: India keeps mum on US report
regarding serial missile production DATELINE: NEW DELHI,
Sept 7 BODY: India on Thursday refused to confirm or deny a
US media report that it was planning full production of
about 300 short-range surface-to-surface missiles for all
three branches of the defence forces. "Obviously we are
19) The New York Times September 7, 2000, Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section A; Page 5; Column 3; Foreign Desk
HEADLINE: U.S. Is Reported to Hand Russia Secret Details on
Sub That Sank BYLINE: By STEVEN LEE MYERS DATELINE:
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 BODY: President Clinton's national
security adviser, Samuel R. Berger, has provided his
20) The Guardian (London) September 7, 2000 SECTION: Guardian
Foreign Pages, Pg. 16 BODY: US secretly put lives at atomic
risk' Desperate to build up its nuclear arsenal in the
early years of the cold war, the US government secretly
hired hundreds of private companies to process radioactive
material without informing workers or local residents of
21) THE HINDU September 7, 2000 HEADLINE: Japan to go ahead
with missile plans BODY: TOKYO, SEPT. 6. Irrespective of
the Clinton administration's intentions on building a
missile defence system, Japan is not going to interrupt its
own "research" on the Theatre Missile Defence (TMD) system.
The Defence Agency's requirement specific to this research
NUCLEAR POWER
22) Huragua nuclear power plant remains on Russian-Cuban agenda
BODY: MOSCOW. Sept 7 (Interfax) The construction of the
Huragua nuclear power plant in Cuba remains on the agenda
of the Russian-Cuban relations, Moscow sources told
Interfax on Thursday. Construction of the Huragua plant
began in 1976 with the assistance of the former Soviet
23) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Germany refuses to help
Siemens sell plutonium plant to Russia DATELINE: BERLIN,
Sept 7 BODY: German Economics Minister Werner Mueller has
refused financial aid to the German group Siemens in its
bid to sell a plutonium processing plant to Russia, the
daily Suddeutsche Zeitung said Thursday. "I will not agree
24) ASIA PULSE HEADLINE: RUSSIA PLANS FAR EAST NUCLEAR POWER
PLANT TO SUPPLY JAPAN DATELINE: TOKYO, Sept 7 BODY: Russia
plans to build a nuclear power plant in its Far Eastern
region between 2010 and 2020 and hopes to supply Japan with
electricity from the plant, Russia's acting minister for
atomic energy said at a press conference here Wednesday.
(Greenpeace)
25) Greens add proviso to EU aid for Ukrainian N-plants By
Janet McEvoy BRUSSELS, Sept 6 (Reuters) - The European
Commission on Wednesday put a question mark over its plans
to help Ukraine build two new nuclear power plants to
replace Chernobyl, the scene of the world's worst civilian
nuclear disaster. Michaele Schreyer, a German and the only
OCEANS
26) Japan Economic Newswire HEADLINE: Japan pro- whaling group
slams U.S. commerce secretary's view DATELINE: WASHINGTON,
Sept. 7 Kyodo BODY: A Japanese pro- whaling group on
Wednesday rejected recent criticism by U.S. Commerce
Secretary Norman Mineta of Japan's expanded whaling
program, accusing the secretary of 'displaying his
27) Japan Economic Newswire HEADLINE: Japan cannot sign new
convention on tuna catches: official DATELINE: TOKYO, Sept.
7 Kyodo BODY: Japan cannot sign a proposed convention
designed to regulate catches of tuna in the western and
central Pacific Ocean, a top Japanese fishery bureaucrat
said Thursday. 'Under the current circumstances, it's
28) ALASKA SALMON WINS SUSTAINABLE FISHERY LABEL ANCHORAGE,
Alaska, September 6, 2000 (ENS) - The Marine Stewardship
Council (MSC) announced Tuesday that Alaska salmon is the
first U.S. fishery to be certified as sustainable. The MSC
certified fisheries that meet strict, peer reviewed
standards of sustainability. The label allows consumers to
TOXICS
(Greenpeace)
29) CHEMICAL GIANT TAKEN TO ARGENTINE COURT OVER CHLORINE LEAK
BAHIA BLANCA, Argentina, September 6, 2000 (ENS) - The
environmental group Greenpeace is taking Belgian chemical
giant Solvay to court in an attempt to force the company to
close its Indupa plant in Bahia Blanca, 550 kilometers (300
miles) southwest of Buenos Aires. Today's injunction filed
30) Japan Economic Newswire HEADLINE: Court orders shutdown of
Mie industrial waste incinerator DATELINE: TSU, Japan,
Sept. 7 Kyodo BODY: The Tsu District Court on Thursday
ordered an industrial waste firm to shut down an
incinerator in Ueno, Mie Prefecture, western Japan, saying
emissions of dioxins and other toxic substances surpass
31) 09/07 South Africa Defends Importing Toxic Waste for Res...
JOHANNESBURG, September 6 (Xinhua)--South African
Environment Affairs Minister Valli Moosa on Wednesday
defended a government decision to allow 60 tons of
hazardous mining waste to enter the country for research
purposes. South Africa had not yet ratified an amendment to
32) The Guardian (London) September 7, 2000 SECTION: Guardian
Home Pages, Pg. 12 HEADLINE: Male fish turning female BODY:
All male fish sampled in the River Aire in Yorkshire show
signs of feminisation - and gender-bending' chemicals in
the water could be to blame, scientists said yesterday.
Alan Pickering, director of the centre for ecology and
X-OTHER-X
(Greenpeace)
33) The Times (London) September 7, 2000, SECTION: Features
LENGTH: 1256 words HEADLINE: Companies look for moral
support BYLINE: Martin Cullingford BODY: Consumer power is
forcing ethical issues up the agenda, says Martin
Cullingford. The Internet has brought a new transparency to
business. Your company's prices can now be compared with
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